SO it will be goodbye to the man-with-the-mobile when Tory group leader Kevin Foster heads off to the land of Fawlty Towers in his quest to be the area’s new MP.

His reputation as a serial tweeter has preceded him, with one Devon paper already dubbing him King Twitter

But did we miss something about the Cheylesmore councillor here in Coventry? Not text appeal but sex appeal?

Marcus Wood, a former parliamentary candidate who supported Foster’s successful nomination to fight the blue corner for Torbay in the next election, said: “He is bright and has impressed the ladies.”

True, Kevin is a Mensa member (he’d rather not talk about it) and smooth in a Cameron-esque way.

But, as far as we know, smelling salts haven’t been required to revive swooning Tory ladies in Coventry when he enters the room.

Give the man his due though, he knows how to pull at the heart strings when it comes to wooing his home crowd.

In his address to the electorate of what was once called Tory-bay, he said: “It seems a long journey from the days when I was paddling with bucket and spade on Paignton beach and going to the zoo to standing here as parliamentary candidate.”

Brings a tear to the eye, and is somewhat reminiscent of Major’s line about England as “A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs..”

John Major, that is, not the Major, Basil Fawlty’s more right-wing guest, whose own nostalgia for cricket involved “taking a woman to see India”.

“At the Oval... fine match, marvellous finish.. she went off to powder her... powder her hands or something... women... er... never came back.”